Famous Deaths In December - 31

0192  Death of Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 on December - 31.  

0335  On December - 31 death of st. Silvester, Pope  

0406  On December - 31 godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle  

0439  On this day in history melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56  

1164  On this day in history death of margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)  

1194  Death of Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157) on this day in history.  

1297  On December - 31 death of humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)  

1302  On December - 31 death of frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)  

1382  Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan on December - 31.  

1384  John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies on December - 31.  

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1424  Death of Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader on this day in history.  

1460  Death of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443) on December - 31.  

1510  Death of Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472) on December - 31.  

1535  Death of William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465) on this day in history.  

1568  Death of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493) on December - 31.  

1575  On December - 31 death of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)  

1583  Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies on this day in history.  

1610  Death of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540) on December - 31.  

1616  On December - 31 jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31  

1647  On December - 31 giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies  

1650  On this day in history death of dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)  

1652  Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies on this day in history.  

1673  Death of Oliver St John, English statesman and judge on December - 31.  

1679  Death of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608) on this day in history.  

1691  On December - 31 death of dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)  

1719  John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1733  On this day in history hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44  

1742  On December - 31 death of karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)  

1775  On this day in history richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British  

1799  On December - 31 death of jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)  

1802  On this day in history francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89  

1809  On this day in history franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75  

1818  Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77 on December - 31.  

1848  On December - 31 oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69  

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0695  On December - 31 birth of muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)  

1378  On December - 31 birth of callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)  

1378  Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458) was born on this day in history.  

1491  On this day in history birth of jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)  

1514  Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) was born on December - 31.  

1540  On December - 31 birth of silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)  

1572  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)  

1668  On December - 31 birth of hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist